Tag: OCA

IEC Publish OCPP 2.0.1 as International Standard IEC 63584

In a recent press release the Open Charge Alliance announced that:

On October 20th, the IEC published the approval of the Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP) as an IEC International Standard IEC 63584! This marks a significant milestone in our mission to create a smarter, more sustainable, and safer charging infrastructure, and OCA is honoured by the support of the national committees involved.  

Over the past three months, National Committees have been rigorously evaluating OCPP2.0.1ed3 to determine if OCPP could be adopted as an International Standard. With the approval from the National Committees, OCPP2.0.1ed3 will soon be published as IEC 63584.

Lonneke Driessen, CEO of OCA: “We are incredibly proud that the IEC experts have recognized OCPP within the international standards framework. This accomplishment responds to a long-standing demand to formalize OCPP, and we look forward to further collaboration with IEC experts to accelerate the development of OCPP.”

IEC 63584 will be available on the IEC website in the coming weeks.

Open Charge Alliance Enhances OCPP 1.6 Security

The Open Charge Alliance announced today that they have published a new security white paper. According to the news release:

Secure communication and operation is a critical aspect of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure. In the latest release of OCPP version 2.0 security features such as secure connection setup, security events/logging and secure firmware update, have been added to the specification. For OCPP 1.6 however, the security measures have up until now been designed by individual implementers of OCPP. To further assist the industry the Open Charge Alliance now publishes a white paper to describe a standard way to address security using OCPP 1.6-J. Security requirements are included, on security measures for both Charge Point and Central System, to help developers build a secure OCPP implementation.

This white paper contains the following security enhancements:

  • Secure connection setup
  • Security events/logging
  • Secure firmware update

The OCPP 1.6 Security Whitepaper is also added to the OCPP 1.6 zip file that can be found on the download page of the OCA website.

I’m travelling at the moment, and haven’t had a chance to look through the document in detail. However it certainly sounds as though the OCA has ported the new security features in Open Charge Point Protocol 2.0 back into version 1.6. They are perhaps long overdue, since only a few days ago Kaspersky Lab revealed that “electric vehicle chargers supplied by a major vendor carry vulnerabilities that can be exploited by cyber-attackers” had just been patched.

Watch this space!